WITN: While the nation is mourning what happened in Boston on Monday and the piecing together details of a deadly fire and explosion in Wake, Texas on Wednesday night, many are taking Thursday to also remember a terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut 30 years ago.
On this day in 1983, what has been classified as an act of terrorism killed 52 American diplomats, military personnel, and Lebanese Embassy colleagues.
Be advised that after we mourn we are coming for all of you and political correctness will not save you. The next generation will remember this day as the second Boston Massacre but even greater, they will remember our avenging this attack.
In this special commentary, Col. Allen West reflects on the deeper significance of the Boston Marathon terrorist attack and discovers three parallels between the race organizers, the athletes and the savage or savages that carried out this horrific attack.
by Allen West via Facebook
I completely understand the Alinsky tactics and have no issue with the insidious and incessant personal attacks by the left against me. However, I am warning you, end your harassment of my wife Angela. The students from Florida Atlantic University who have gone to my wife’s office, stalked her at the FAU Board of Trustee meetings, and sent letters to her company headquarters, end it now. This is not a threat, it is a promise that if Angela calls and tells me of one more incident, you will face me, the side of me that you do not want to see. My wife Angela is an American citizen and if you believe that you can intimidate her to surrender her freedoms you are mistaken. Those left wing groups and lawyers associated with these individuals supporting their antics, I recommend you disassociate yourself. How dare you animals attack my wife and her professional reputation. This is your one and only advisory notice.
by Bethany Bowra
Youth interest is a key that seems to elude all things remotely political; my generation, known for its apathetic and careless behavior, has thus far been content to allow our futures to be decided by big-government elitists who seek to use their power selfishly. Most of my peers view politics as something that won’t affect them for “at least another 10 years,” so they see no real reason to step in and get involved today. Efforts to change this perspective must be performed urgently and significantly if we truly want to preserve this country– no cause can survive more than a generation or two if it fails to purposely train up new leaders who can carry the torch into the future. This weekend, True the Vote proved, by giving high-schoolers the opportunity to address the summit’s attendees, that they are dedicated to making this engagement a reality.
I had the privilege of joining Tanner Brumbarger and Cesar Ruiz as the youngest speakers at this year’s True the Vote national summit.
Ruiz shared his thoughts on engaging Latino youth who, despite what many believe, do want to be fully immersed in America’s election system because this is our America. “This is the country we love,” Ruiz said. He continued: “We have a chance to vote our values– make our voice heard– yet we remain stagnant.” He stressed the importance of reaching out to minority youth and sharing the message of election integrity with them. All political issues stem from election integrity– party affiliation, conventions, key issues and the like. Ruiz stressed the importance of engaging Latino youth in the election integrity process. Many Latino countries require photo ID and have strict laws to protect the integrity of their election systems; since they may already be familiar with such practices, use that familiarity to convey the importance of election integrity in the United States. As Ruiz said, this is the country they love, so let’s keep that in mind when reaching out to them.
This is the type of message that needs to be spread far and wide– how to reach Latino young people, coming directly from a Latino young person. True the Vote gave Ruiz the platform necessary to share this message with a large audience who can then help him push it out to other sources.
Following Ruiz’s speech, Tanner Brumbarger and I had the opportunity to share a series of points we developed, called “10 Keys to Youth Involvement.” In a discussion called FutureChoice, we had the chance to share our ideas with some of the most active and vocal folks in the country in the area of election integrity; it was crucial for these activists to hear about youth outreach and was equally crucial for Brumbarger and I to share that message.
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by Allen West via Facebook 4:30pm ET
My heartfelt condolences go out to those who have been killed, wounded, and lost loved ones in this bombing incident in Boston at the Marathon finish line – on Patriots Day in memory of the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord. We don’t have all the facts right now, but we shall, and if this carnage is the result of nefarious actions, the perpetrators will pay. For now, please stop and pray and ask for God’s blessings upon the victims and His strength and resolve for our nation.
Frank Gaffney appeared on the Kudlow Report on CNBC to discuss North Korea. Amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula, the North Korean government told foreign governments to leave South Korean territory for their safety. Today, Kim Jong Un's government may launch missiles in a provocative test.
Gaffney points out that Obama's actions and rhetoric toward American nuclear disarmament is dangerous, and has contributed to North Korea's aggressiveness.
by Allen West via Facebook
I am deeply saddened by the loss of Margaret Thatcher. Yet another icon of freedom and conservative principles is gone. She stood for free markets, against communism and socialism, and restored her nation’s greatness. We are so starving for this type of resolute principled leadership today and must ensure there is a next generation of leaders waiting to take up the gauntlet.
Read her words, and you’ll understand why I respect her so.
“If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and would achieve nothing. ”
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”
“When I’m out of politics I’m going to run a business, it’ll be called rent-a-spine”
by Allen West via Facebook
The jobs report released today is just another example of the Orwellian world in which we now live. How can unemployment drop from 7.7% to 7.6% when only 88k jobs were added – and well below the prediction of 200k? The fact is countless Americans are no longer counted. America’s workforce participation rate remains at an all-time low, and minority unemployment is at epidemic highs. I know, my dear liberal progressive friends hate facts, but surely they hear the printing presses at the Fed? President Obama, if we continue on this path, your Potemkin Village-esque artificial economy is going to collapse.
by Allen West via Facebook
On the day of MLK’s assassination 45 years ago, I was 7 years old and remember all the women screaming and crying on our street. I grew up in the shadow of his final resting place on Auburn Ave since my elementary school, Our Lady of Lourdes, was right across the street. I would gaze upon MLK Jr.’s tomb each day as I walked to the YMCA & to my mom’s workplace. If Dr. King were alive today, he would be appalled at the unemployment, lack of quality education, and level of black-on- black crime affecting our black community. Chances are he would not recognize Auburn Ave either. We must reengage and fight harder to restore his dream.
by Allen West via Facebook
Today we learned first-time applications for unemployment benefits this week are an incredibly high 385K. Now 40.2% of Americans have been unemployed longer than 27 weeks. There is clearly no sign of economic recovery. Ben Bernanke has stated he will continue to print money until the reported unemployment rate gets down to 6%. But this administration, its liberal minions and the complicit Orwellian media want you to focus on gun control, same-sex marriage and more empty campaign rhetoric. America, we need to take back the reins.
